I am contacting debian-devel as per policy, in order to make libc-bin
essential.
Currently libc-bin is virtually essential: a lot of essential packages
depend on libc6 which in turn depends on libc-bin. This package has been
created during the first steps of the multiarch transition two years
ago, and all the binaries have been moved there. Note that libc-bin
doesn't depend on libc6 while it should, in order to avoid recursive
dependencies.
It appears that libc-bin provides a few required POSIX binaries [1],
and should therefore be essential. This would also solve the recursive
dependency between libc6 and libc-bin, and allow for an hypothetical
libc7 transition in the future.
> Currently libc-bin is virtually essential: a lot of essential packages
> depend on libc6 which in turn depends on libc-bin. This package has been
> created during the first steps of the multiarch transition two years
> ago, and all the binaries have been moved there. Note that libc-bin
> doesn't depend on libc6 while it should, in order to avoid recursive
> dependencies.
>
> It appears that libc-bin provides a few required POSIX binaries [1],
> and should therefore be essential.
That seems right to me.
> This would also solve the recursive
> dependency between libc6 and libc-bin, and allow for an hypothetical
> libc7 transition in the future.
If libc6 were to drop its dependency on libc-bin now, it would be
possible to remove libc-bin after a partial upgrade. Therefore I would
suggest to postpone changing the dependencies until an essential
libc-bin is in stable.
Cheers,
Sven
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making libc-bin essential
